Verboticisms

Created by: Paradox

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Sentence: It has become clear that a lot of figures that demand attention for their religion or for the Earth are nothing more than preachleechers.

Etymology: Basically a combination of a preacher, someone who preaches, and a leecher, which seems pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.

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COMMENTS:

Beware: perfidious prunellas are proliferating! Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 22:00:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um

Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.

Etymology: ecology + emporium

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COMMENTS:

You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00

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Created by: coolkids58

Pronunciation: apsid

Sentence: theres an opside organasation that guy is a opside

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

o=organization p=profits s=selling i=imminent d=distruction/damnation - coolkids58, 2007-08-10: 10:32:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: DOOM-Shark

Sentence: Feelbad world, along with a daily dose of dread and damnation, flowed frenetically across the airwaves every evening, delivered by a diamond-dripping doomshark preaching tarabolical times ahead for mankind. But for those faithful who fawnishly followed this foolmonger, and his fickle-feel philosophy, there was much more to fear from him here on terra firma, for financial fleecing was his forte.

Etymology: A conflation of "doom": death, ruin, sad or evil destiny & "shark", (slangish): confidence trickster, parasite, crooked business person (as in land shark, loan shark).

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COMMENTS:

A is for alliteration. ;) - Kyoti, 2007-08-10: 11:03:00

I hate it i just wanted to vote because i know you wont win - BellaRina, 2007-08-10: 11:39:00

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Created by: phdschub

Pronunciation: ter-ror-press

Sentence: Why does the terrorpress always find us in a state of impending doom. or 2)The terrorpress got to me again.

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Created by: MrPlow42

Pronunciation: Fud - bud

Sentence: Those fudbuds are now trying to convince us that our dogs aren't getting enough cheese.

Etymology: F.U.D. - Information Technology term for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. & Bud - friend.

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Created by: GreenTara

Pronunciation: Terror-Corp

Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.

Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation

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Created by: fensketo

Pronunciation: man-a-feet-oh

Sentence: Man if I wasn't manifeto I wouldn't be a loser!

Etymology: Man - Feet

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: GREEN-fleece

Sentence: Although Harriet had submitted her application 18 months ago, along with the $495 membership fee, she suddenly began to realize that she may not have been selected as an elite member of Greenfleece.

Etymology: Green (money) + Greenpeace + fleece (rip off)

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COMMENTS:

A growing trend. Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:54:00

I like it as a verb, too - xtine, 2007-08-13: 16:42:00

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Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: tear-uh-muh-ged-un-ist

Sentence: We have stopped inviting Cathy to the beach with us. Her terramageddonist reminders of how the beach sand which sticks to our feet increases erosion and leads to the extinction of all sea turtles, is too much for us to bear.

Etymology: terra (Earth) + armegeddon (end of Earth) + ist (pertaining to a person/organization); also, the tie with "terror" and "terrorist"

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